Motivators for adopting social computing in global software development: An empirical study

Niazi, Mahmood; Mahmood, Sajjad; Alshayeb, Mohammad; Baqais, Abdulrahman Ahmed Bobakr; Gill, Asif Qumer

doi:10.1002/smr.1872

“…These agile practices will help to scale down the GSD challenges and will improve the processes of GSD in the context of green and sustainable software using agile methods. A similar approach has been used by other researchers . However, due to page limitations, the identified 36 practices/solutions will be published in future. To develop a GAMM that will assist the GSD vendors in measuring their agile maturity in the context of green and sustainable software development. We plan to conduct case studies at CMMI‐ and ISO‐certified software development organizations, to evaluate the effectiveness of the model (GAMM).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using agile methods for the development of green and sustainable software: Success factors for GSD vendors

Rashid

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Khan

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2017

J Software Evolu Process

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Over the last decade, the use of agile methods has grown dramatically for software development.Agile methods guarantee to accelerate the delivery of remarkable software with increased user satisfaction and reduced cost. However, in recent years, due to the emergence of green software engineering, software developers are compelled to focus more on green and sustainable aspects of software. Green software engineering aims to design, develop, and use the software with confined energy and computing resources. Recently, software engineers in global software development have adapted agile methods for quick, interactive, and environment-friendly software development.In this study, we have identified 16 success factors, through systematic literature review (SLR) and applied contrived search criteria derived from the research questions; 80 relevant papers were identified and reviewed. Findings of the SLR study were then empirically validated through questionnaire survey in global software development industry, in which 106 experts from 25 different countries participated.The findings of our industrial survey are mostly in coherence with the SLR findings. However, there is a difference in ranks of the various success factors across the 2 data sets (SLR and industrial survey). KEYWORDSagile software development, empirical study, green and sustainable software, GSD vendor, success factors, systematic literature review (SLR) | INRODUCTIONAgile software development is an invigorating approach towards quick and interactive software development. It provides a conceptual framework for undertaking a software project that is colocated or globally distributed. Unlike traditional methods of software development, agile methods attempt to scale down the risks and maximize software productivity by developing software in short iterations. 1,2 These methods rely on team members' skills and informal communication rather than formal and hefty documentations. 3 Thus, agile methods pursue to avoid overwhelming processes, having little contribution in actual software development.Agile methods are strongly linked to the history of incremental and iterative development. The concept of agile methods were coined in 2001 4 by a group of agile software developers, interested in modern, simple incremental and iterative development methods, who constituted the Agile Alliance (http://www.agilealliance.org). The establishment of the Agile Alliance provided a base for the formal publications of the agile manifesto that contributed agile methods to software engineering domain. The agile manifesto brought an industry-led vision for a reflective change in software engineering paradigm. These methods focus on customer satisfaction through early and consistent delivery of quality software, promotion of sustainable development, simple and polymorphic design, flexibility towards change, and rich communication and collaborations among the agile team members and customers. 5,6 The agile manifesto represents a quite innovative work in cleaving and outspreading ...

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“…Similar procedure has been adapted by other researchers. [84][85][86][87] The questionnaire survey was designed to get GSD practitioners' perceptions of the identified agile practices for green and sustainable software development by practicing agile methods.…”

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confidence: 99%

Agile practices for global software development vendors in the development of green and sustainable software

Rashid

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,

Khan

²

2018

J Software Evolu Process

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Over the last decade, the use of agile methods has grown dramatically for software development. Agile methods guarantee to accelerate the delivery of remarkable software with increased user satisfaction and reduced cost. However, in recent years, due to emergence of green software engineering, software developers are compelled to focus more on green and sustainable aspects of software. Global software engineering aims to design, develop, and use a software with limited energy and computing resources. Recently, software engineers in global software development (GSD) have adapted agile methods for quick, interactive, and environment‐friendly software development. However, there is a lack of specific practices to be followed by GSD vendors in the development of green and sustainable software. In this study, we have identified 36 agile practices through systematic literature review and applied contrived search criteria derived from the research questions; 53 relevant papers were identified and reviewed. Findings of the systematic literature review were then empirically validated through questionnaire survey in GSD industry, in which 106 relevant experts from 25 different countries participated. The identified agile practices are intended to assist GSD vendors in strengthening their agile maturity towards green and sustainable software development.

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“…Any successful acquisition of systems can only be ensured if such situational factors are thoroughly studied (Holmstrom et al, 2006). We have to be mindful of the fact that in any given situation software development as well as software acquisition will face several (Herbsleb and Moitra, 2001;Niazi et al, 2017).…”

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Evolution of situational factors in blended learning systems interfaces during COVID-19: An analytical study

Ramzan¹

2021

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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The world has been undergoing tremendous transformation since early 2020 with the occurrence of a global pandemic of COVID-19. While it will take several years of study and research to understand the true effect of this pandemic on society, it is worthy of noting that it has already transformed our methods of leading lives. One of the areas, highly impacted by a pandemic is education. In order to deliver education in a distance learning manner, more and more academic institutions have been acquiring IT systems to deliver education to the students in the confines and safety of their homes. Saudi Electronic University (SEU) has been pioneering the application of online systems for blended learning in not just Saudi Arabia but the whole middle east and north Africa region. The reliance on systems at SEU for maintaining education standards during pandemics has increased. This has provided the opportunity to researchers in various fields of IT and computing to study evolving role of such systems in traditional and blended models of education. Situational Factors (SFs) are key elements that affect the acceptability of systems by stakeholders. This paper describes the outcome of the study that was carried out to identify critical Situational Factors that play a major role in the acceptance or otherwise of systems in the academic sphere during pandemic times. The results have shown that knowledge, communication, and trust are the most important situational factors for blended learning applications. The case studies and findings are presented followed by a brief analysis of results.

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Motivators for adopting social computing in global software development: An empirical study

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Using agile methods for the development of green and sustainable software: Success factors for GSD vendors

Using agile methods for the development of green and sustainable software: Success factors for GSD vendors

Agile practices for global software development vendors in the development of green and sustainable software

Evolution of situational factors in blended learning systems interfaces during COVID-19: An analytical study

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